5.0.2.21 Release Notes

Maxwell

License files are now saved into a “v5” folder to avoid license conflicts with previous major versions of Maxwell Render and demo or expired licenses (for more information, check this page, bullet #8: https://nextlimitsupport.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/maxwell/pages/22681242 )
Update license: append by default.
Updated RLM server to version 13.0BL2.

Maxwell and Studio did not evaluate referenced MXM textures correctly.
Triangle ID channel was not saved in embed channels mode if the format does not allow for layers.
Crash in OSX rendering meshes with the subdivision modifier.
Infinite loop using MaxwellScatter extension with an object that also uses MaxwellScatter (now the second level of scattering is ignored).
Maxwell Render took a long time to start rendering.
LDR images used in IBL looked washed or with wrong colors.
Reference loader loaded instances from the main scene instead of referenced scene when there were original objects with the same name in the main and the referenced scene.
Linux installer distributed .so files that could conflict with user system libraries.
FIRE crashed (CPU and GPU) changing displacement from Flat to Catmull/loop.
Crash in OSX in multithreaded voxelization.
Crash rendering Light Groups + Color Multilight. Now it changes to Intensity Multilight mode if there are Multilight groups involved.

Support for HDPI monitors has been improved. You’ll notice crispy text and icons and other general improvements.
Console warnings for bad material map configuration created by plug-ins.

Wrong data issues with TIFF images and LZW compression in Linux platforms (including Maxwell Cloud nodes).
MaxwellScatter extension ignores the MaxwellScatter modifier applied to the scattered objects (if they have) to avoid infinite loops.

Some channels (alpha, material, object, position, z-buffer) could show artifacts.
Procedural textures could crash on GPU and produce wrong material assignments.
Texture properties (Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue) did not work as intended in GPU.
Crash rendering scenes with unsupported procedural geometry extensions (grass, volumetrics, particles).

Object transformation changes with FIRE GPU don’t re-voxelize the whole scene, making FIRE GPU more responsive to scene edition.

FIRE window saved a corrupt image to disk.
Studio didn't save a thumbnail (for the MXS saved file) when the user launches GPU FIRE.
Studio crashed after the quality of FIRE was risen by the user.
The MXS files were generated with a corrupted preview image.
Studio crashed when saving the file after FIRE has been launched with quality 7 or higher.
The viewport selection, drag & drop, focus tool, etc. didn’t work properly with HDPI monitors.
Crash moving Studio between HDPI / non-HDPI monitors.
Scaling objects could crash Studio.
Studio crashed on Mac when right-clicking on an MXS file in Finder > Open with... and choosing Studio.
Local browser blocked and force-closed when we chose “outdoor ies” folder in Studio.
FIRE GPU vignetting was always “on”.
When opening Studio through CMD with -mxs, the viewport got overexposed.
Studio didn’t read the defaultlayout_v5.stlay file from the installation folder “layouts”.

No need to save the current scene to disk before sending it to Maxwell Cloud/Network (it now exports to a temporal mxs file).
Support for HDPI monitors has been improved. You’ll notice crispy text and icons and other general improvements.

Support for HDPI monitors has been improved.
Added two new material preview scenes: attenuation (specifically for testing the attenuation distance of the transparent materials) and drapery 2 (intended to test fabrics).

Cloud job/render IDs are now shown in the jobs list in the same column. The cloud job name is shown in its own column.

The “Buy cloud time” link points to the Maxwell Cloud area of the webshop, instead of the global webshop page.
Support for HDPI monitors has been improved.
User panel close button added